The European Commission can feel the ground shifting beneath its ‘green transition,’ so it is scrambling to shore up the project.
Ahead of an environment summit later today, on November 4th, Brussels’ top green official, Teresa Ribera, warned that abandoning targets would be a sign of “weakness and incoherence”—what many believe to be the opposite of the truth—and that this would come with “enormous economic and human costs.”
Delaying climate action or lowering our ambition below the required trajectory is an invitation to waste money and miss investment opportunities…
I call on the environment ministers … to back true European competitiveness: socially responsible and environmentally consistent.
These ministers are meeting in Brussels to reach a deal on the European Union’s new climate target for 2040.
The Commission wants to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 90% below 1990 levels by 2040, and is trying to sweeten the deal with alternative ways to hit the target.
But even if Brussels gets a draft plan through—no sure thing—conservatives will likely rip it up later, echoing voter fears over the huge price tag of ‘net zero.’
Indeed, there’ll be sweaty brows in Brussels after Czechia’s new coalition branded the EU’s ‘Green Deal’ “unsustainable.”
In Sweden, too, officials from the governing Christian Democrats (KD) said on Tuesday morning that “the debate on the EU’s 2040 climate targets must not end up in an opinion corridor where the ‘purist’ must uncritically stand behind an extremely narrow emissions curve—regardless of the consequences—in order not to risk being labelled a climate denier.”
”Debatten om EU:s klimatmål 2040 får inte hamna i en åsiktskorridor där den ”renlärige” okritiskt måste stå bakom en extremt snäv utsläppskurva – oavsett konsekvenserna – för att inte riskera att stämplas som klimatförnekare.
Sweden Democrats MEP Charlie Weimers said it was “important and good that more are joining the line that SD has driven for years.”
The EU’s climate goals are a recipe for deindustrialisation and poverty.
Clearly terrified by the prospect of the EU’s climate goals being watered down, Spanish water management official (and, evidently, Brussels fan) Luis Babiano fumed that this would lay “the groundwork for the decline of the political and economic project” of the bloc as a whole.
Michael Curzon is a news writer for europeanconservative.com based in England’s Midlands. He is also Editor of Bournbrook Magazine, which he founded in 2019, and previously wrote for London’s Express Online. His Twitter handle is @MichaelCurzon_.
